Bed davenport



D. F. DYKE March 8, 1927. 1,620,086

' BED DAVENPORT Filed May 1, 1922 Patented Mar. 8, 1927.

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DARRELL IE. DYKE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE SENG CC)IVJZPAIQ' JT, OF

. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

BED DAVENPORT.

Application filed May 1,

are: To simplify the construction without impairing thefree and easy movements of the parts; to provide improved means for attaching the metal fixtures in the bed davenport frame and for fixing the axes of the supporting links; to provide improved means for swinging the hinged end of the seat outwardly from the frame; and in genera], to produce the construction herein shown and described.

In the accompanying drawing, Fig.1 is a side view partly in section of a bed davenport constructed in accordance with the prin ciples of this invention, in open position; Fig. 2 shows the same in closed position; Fig. 3 is a sectional View taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1; Fig.4 is a sectional detail of the supporting plate taken on the line 44 of Fig. 2; Fig. 5 is a section taken on the line 55 of Fig. 3; Fig. 6 is a view of the supporting leg taken on the line 66 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 7 is a detail section taken on theline 7-7 of Fig. 3.

In this invention the bed davenport frame comprises a pair of endsl connected by a fixed back 2 or any other suitable back structure leaving the front unconnected except by the front board 3. The front board may be connected directly to the frame ends, in any well known manner, but it is preferably at tached thereto by means of a pair of plates 4, one connected at each end of the front board, and the plates each being connected to the adjacent frame end by fastening means extending through the openings 5 and 6. v j

An upholstered seat 7 is hinged in the frame and is adapted to rest in its closed position upon the front board 3 and upon back supports 8, one attached to each frame end.

The mattress supporting frame comprises three sections, 9, 10 and'll pivotally connected and supported from the plates 4 by means of legs 12 and from the underside of the seat by end brackets 13 and links 14.

Each plate 4 is formed with recessed portions at the bottoms of which are slots 15 and 16 curved or irregular in shape and disposed to which a cup 26 is pivoted.

1922. Serial No. 557,715.

at an angle to each other. Attached to the lower end of each leg or supporting member 12 are headed projections 17 and 18 movable in the slots 15 and 16 respectively, the headed portion of each projection being disposed in the recess, as shown more clearly in Fig. 4-

so that the plate 4 may flatly abut the ad'- jacent frame end without gouging out the frame for the path of the headed projections. These slots 15 and 16 guide the lower ends of the supporting members 12 from asupporting position, as shown in Fig. 1-,.to a

folded'position asshown in Fig. 2, and the upper end of each member 12 is connected to the bed section 11 by means of a slot 19 which permits a slight relative movement'of these parts. The brackets 13 are attached to the seat frame and extend below it for providing a fixed pivot for the bed section 10, and each one of the brackets has an exboard and project the front edge of the seat a distance in front of the frame 1. Tieir rearward movement may be limited'by the engagement with a fixed projection secured to the plate or by positioning one of the fastening apertures 6 so that a fastening device6 inserted therethrough will constitute the stop. j

Securedto each side frame of the bed section 10 is a fitting 23 which has one extremity 24 extending between the bracket 13 and the section 10 and another opposite extremity 25 V The cups 26 at opposite ends of the seat form bearings for the ends of a truss tube 27, the intermediate portion of which is offset and held in, place by the seatframe or secured to an adjacent frame part 28 of the seat and in a recess 29 thereof by any suitable fastening means '30. i

in its overturned position by means of legs 31 which fold parallel with the seat frame when the seat is closed. This may be accomplished in any well known manner, as for example, by providing a bracket 32 with a supporting pin 34 and forming a slot 33 in the upper end of each leg 31 so that it may assume an upright position in which it is held by the bracket, as shown by full linesin tension 20to which one end of sin-angular I v The outer edge of the seat 7 is supported 7 Fig. 6, or a folded position, as shown by the broken lines in the same figure.

Attached to the middle bed section 10 and projecting downwardly and outwardly be yond its pivotal connection with the adjacent section 11 is a fixed arm 35 having one end of a coil spring 36 attached to the outer extremity thereof, the other end of the spring being attached to a fixed projection 37 on the bed section 11. This spring 86 tends to keep the bed sections 10 and 11 in alinement, as shown in Fig. 1, and when the bed bottom is folded under the seat the spring is extended, as shown in Fig. 2, so that in raising the seat the springs 36 at the opposite ends of the seat will assist the raising action by alining the sections 10 and 11 as soon as the seathas been raised a predetermined amount. In opening this construction to form a bed the rear edge of the seat is raised upwardly and outwardly about the upper end of the hinging members 21 as a pivot carrying the bed sections with the seat and raising the upper end of the section 10 i so that the continued movement of the seat in its overturning direction will permit the springs 36 to straighten out and aline the bed sections 10 and 11 to which the seat and the bed sections swing outwardly upon the lower pivot of the hinging members 21 whereupon the bed sections will be extended in a horizontal plane above the seat. If the seat supporting legs 31 have not dropped by gravity to their supporting position, a slight manual attention thereto will place them in the proper position and the construction is ready for use as a bed.

In folding the bed this operation is reversed, as the outermost edge of the seat is grasped and raised to swing about and upon the hinging members 21 and breaking the bed sections about their pivot between the sections 9 and 10, the springs 36 holding the other two sections in alinement until the hinging members 21 swing the seat and the bed bottom inwardly, whereupon the continued-overturning of the seat breaks the alinement of the sections 10 and 11 against the tension of the springs 36 and the bed sections become folded below the seat, as shown in Fig. 2. The rearward movement of the seat is limited by'the engagement of the hinging members 21 with the stops 6, and the front edge o-fthe seat is usually supported upon the upper edge of the front board 3. In this folding movement the links 14 and the pivotal mounting of the section 10 permit the section 9 to fold close to the underside of the seat and the bed section 11 is supported by the legs 12 in their lowermost position a distance above the floor, which insures that the bed sections are folded compactly to occupy the minimum space below the seat and still provide a space and a holder for the bed clothes.

I claim:

, 1. In a bed davenport, an invertible upholstered seat having a frame at its underside, a sectional bed bottom, brackets at the ends of the seat attached to the frame for supporting the bed bottom, a truss bar extending between the bed bottom ends and having an intermediate offset portion rigidly attached to the seat frame, and means pivotally connecting the ends of the truss bar with the ends of the brackets by which the bed bottom is supported, said means comprising a fitting extending from the bracket pivot below and embracing the side of the bed bottom frame so that the end of the truss bar is supported concentric with the bracket pivot.

2. In a bed davenport, a movable upholstered seat having a rigid frame, one portion of which has a recessed edge, a pair of brackets one at each end of the seat having an extension at a distance from the frame, a sectional bed bottom having one section pivotally connected in the bracket at a distance from the frame, a truss bar extending between the bed bottom ends and seated in the frame recess and rigidly connected to the seat frame with offset ends extending opposite the pivot points of the brackets, and a supporting fitting attached to the bed bottom section and extending around the edge of the bed bottom section to form a concentric connection from the said bracket forthis 7 end of the truss bar.

3. In a bed davenport, an invertible seat having an underframe, supporting brackets at the ends of the frame, a sectional bed bottom pivoted in the brackets, a truss bar having an intermediate offset, and a fitting at each end of the truss bar extending partially around the bed bottom frame and connected with the supporting bracket so that it will be pivoted concentric with the bed bottom.

DARRELL F. DYKE. 

